Two hundred kilometres above the Arctic Circle hundreds of refugees and asylum seekers are finding a new life in northern Norway, but recently the doors have been shutting on those desperate to start fresh in the High North.
ROVANIEMI: Rovaniemi is preparing to host the 2014 Winter Swimming World Championship in March. 1200 participants from 33 countries have already signed up for the games.
We can close down and ban Twitter and Facebook in Russia any time we want and see no risks connected with this, deputy head of Russia’s state media watchdog says.
The Sami Council, which is an umbrella organization for Sami organizations in Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, has agreed that there is a need for Sami to be present in the EU capital of Brussels and plans to establish an office there.
What skills do you need to find a job in Finnmark, and who risks staying unemployed in Murmansk Oblast? BarentsObserver presents a list of the most demanded professions in Northern Norway and Russia.
The environmental organization Bellona Murmansk was on Monday dissolved as a NGO after it was declared a «foreign agent» by Russia’s Justice Ministry earlier this year.
President Vladimir Putin today honoured participants of last years North Pole expeditions with medals. We are happy that we executed the task for the Motherland now we will not leave the Arctic, expedition leader Artur Chilingarov said to the president.
The regional administration in Murmansk has initiated the elaboration of a new action programme on indigenous peoples’ issues in the region. The programme is to help strengthen the sustainable economic and social development of the region’s indigenous groups, the administration underlines.
